Posted on 11/22/2008 11:54:21 AM PST by SgtSaunders
This week, newscasters reported that al Qaeda's #2 terrorist disparaged the election of Barack Obama, and hurled racial slurs at Obama himself. "The report has not been confirmed by the State Department," they all said, but they reported it anyway. Last week, Fox News reporter Carl Cameron told viewers that three "anonymous" insiders of Sen. McCain's campaign said that Sarah Palin was, in essence, a diva and a dunce. He - and dozens of others who picked up the story on other channels - never identified, or even verified, the sources of the quotes, but they reported them anyway. Contrast these shabby examples of "journalism" with the legions of identifiable, verifiable and credible sources who for months have been investigating the disturbing allegation that Barack Obama is ineligible for the presidency because he has failed to meet one of the three requirements that the U.S. Constitution mandates, specifically that he provide proof of his "natural born" U.S. citizenship. What follows is a partial list of people and organizations that have challenged Obama's eligibility. Further on I will comment on how egregious the media's failure to cover this story has been. And last, I will speculate on the reason for the cover-up of this full-blown scandal.
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You said: “”As an American who was born overseas in 1963 ....my mother had a picture of me and my record of birth from the U.S. Embassy stapled in her U.S. Passport.””
But that differs from the other mom’s experience who makes no mention of presenting a baby to the US Embassy for a record of birth. She had only a photo attached to her Passport.
So if the baby is born in the countryside town of country ‘X’ and the US Embassy is a thousand miles from that location or airport, are you suggesting that travel to the Embassy would have been a requirement for travel back to the states?
I’m not buying it.
Mancow has picked up on the story too.
Well I am almost sure the reason Talk Radio doesn’t talk about Odinga is because of Dick Morris.
I really don’t know why the big names are ignoring this
“President Bush, the most powerful man in the world, is forcing them to because of nuclear blackmail by Islamists.”
I don’t think Bush would make a deal with the terrorist like that either. If the terrorist wanted to bomb us, they would just do it.
Now if they wanted him to go more liberal on the WOT, then that would kinda make sense, but Bush has stayed strong, and even got stronger with the Surge. If the terrorist did have a plot then I think Bush would have gave up and pulled all the troops home, and the scum at Club Gitmo would be free as birds.
I really don’t know why the big names are ignoring this
And as for me I was born at least 500 miles from the US Embassy and mom and dad managed to get me to the embassy to get the birth certificate.
Okay, you do not have to buy the story of my birth and citizenship but you will have to trust that John Roberts will not give the oath of office to Obama if he is in fact not qualified for that office.
Rush has mentioned it, before the election, he said that even if Obama was not a citizen, the Democrats would still keep him on the ticket.
I believe your story and it is possible that the situation may differ by the country and exact year.
Some parents are better than others at following the rules.
If she hadn’t followed the rules, what would the immigration services done?
I doubt they would have sent her back to get paperwork or withheld entry for the baby.
I do trust John Roberts, and hope that he can force the lower courts involved or through SCOTUS have the FBI files opened and exposed for public consumption.
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good reading
I heard O’Rielly a few weeks ago bash a caller for bringing up the BC story.
Bill asked her where she heard it, and what she heard, she naturally said she read it on the internet, and said she read about the Grandmother saying he was born in Kenya, Bill then asked her if she had heard the Grandmother say this, when the lady said no she just read about it, he told her not to believe everything on the internet, and he needed hard facts first just not crazy story from the internet. Then he let her go.
The lady obviously didn’t hear the grandma audio.
Interesting point.
If you listen to Rush, Sean, Laura, Levin - have the Drudge Report open at the same time, and compare the topics they start the show with, to what Drudge has up. Nine times out of ten, you won't hear them bring up a thing that's not already getting play in the MSM.
Rush is better than the rest, because he'll take topics out of the print media - you hear him do it all the time. Sean also, once in a while.
Point is, though, these guys all use the MSM as their filter. Not in the MSM - ain't gonna pass inspection on their show.
What pains me is that the talkers fail to see that many stories work their way up from internet forums, to blogs, to online news outlets, then into the MSM, and onto talk radio.
You'd think that by now, the big talkers would have caught on to the fact that citizen journalists are leading the way and breaking the biggest stories in the news, but no. Unless a story has the official MSM stamp of approval, it's "just a story off the internet".
“Second tier conservative talker, Rusty Humphries, mentioned the BC story on his show two nights ago, and basically called it a conspiracy theory without legs.”
He is right, simply because ITS NOT BEING REPORTED!
The rest are aaware of how much DUH1 is being fast-tracked into power, and are afraid of being taken off the air or have recieved very credible threats to their jobs, family, careers, or persons.
The essential question is one of how many have skeletons in their closet which in a Conservative political environment could spell an end to a formerly lucrative career.
No 'word from on high' doomsday-threat scenario is necessary.
What Rusty Humphries meant, is that he believes the BC story has no merit, and is nothing more than a wild conspiracy theory.
From a practical standpoint, I can understand the talkers not wanting to give any story wide airplay until it percolates up into the MSM.
If you believe that we have a free press (which they don't), then you can be reasonably certain that any story that passes MSM muster can be assumed to be true, therefore - fair game for their talk shows.
But - the talkers are all well aware of MSM bias and cover-up. That very condition is what has provided them an audience in the first place. With an un-biased press, there would be little need for conservative talk radio.
So - why don't the talkers trust their instincts about this story? The theory has recently been put forth that they're staying well away from it, because they know that they'll incite the liberal press to launch an all-out defense of Obama, should they so much as open their mouths about it.
That theory makes more sense to me than any other. I've come to trust and rely on our conservative radio hosts, as some of the last free voices for truth we have, and I'd be devastated to think that they've sold out in some way, or are too cowed by Obama to confront him on this most critical issue.
I prefer to think that they're in close consultation with each other, and are maintaining "radio silence" purposefully.
I'm with you, Faith.
I think this is the best bet. If it's a given that he's not qualified among those in the know, then conservatives and Republicans don't want to be painted as the ones to blame for it. If he does get disqualified then they can report what happened: Citizens brought lawsuits and the courts worked to uphold the Constitution.
All of this could get very interesting.
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